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Brian Reynolds

@thegamechief

Pernicious Layabout. Videogame Designer and Entrepreneur. Co-founder Firaxis, Big Huge Games, Zynga East. Games: Civ2, Alpha Centauri, Rise of Nations, FrontierVille, DomiNations. Immigrant to Canada (Montréal). Retweeter of Uranus Jokes.

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Good times...

06.03.2026 22:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
06.03.2026 21:38 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump’s tariffs increase prices.
MAGA: What about Biden.

Trump is forced to release the Epstein files. Hides the ones about him.
MAGA: What about Clinton

Trump starts an illegal war with Iran.
MAGA: What about Obama.

They can’t defend him.
So they deflect.
Every damn time.

06.03.2026 18:33 👍 1503 🔁 335 💬 70 📌 8
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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

05.03.2026 18:47 👍 1342 🔁 724 💬 14 📌 10

This rings true to me--whatever else AI is supposedly doing out there it certainly hasn't de-enshittified a damn thing, and I can't even thing of a new *feature* on an existing piece of software that I actually wanted to use (AI itself as a feature is too self-licking-ice-cream-cone to count anyway)

06.03.2026 02:55 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ex-programmers like Bluesky's tech team will insist strenuously that Everything Has Changed and react to skepticism with hostility and insults, while still completely failing to deliver anything close to a revolution to users.

06.03.2026 02:27 👍 153 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 2

Home by Christmas is what I am hearing.

06.03.2026 00:56 👍 343 🔁 34 💬 12 📌 0

Every bsky staff member keeps talking about how the goal is Nice Social Media but then the second they're even remotely pushed back against for something shitty, and they immediately crash out for multiple days crying about their subhuman userbase.

05.03.2026 19:34 👍 3361 🔁 844 💬 57 📌 121
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Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

05.03.2026 16:03 👍 6016 🔁 2278 💬 59 📌 18
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Well, what a wild ride this has been

05.03.2026 21:25 👍 266 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 7
05.03.2026 20:23 👍 123 🔁 24 💬 4 📌 0

oh GREAT now i have to completely rewrite my script "Fuck Plane"

05.03.2026 19:20 👍 318 🔁 27 💬 17 📌 5

Ad of the day

05.03.2026 18:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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uh oh

03.03.2026 14:25 👍 1183 🔁 170 💬 17 📌 7

If you do this near me I'm joining the phone call. And I'm going to pretend to be Kendall Roy

05.03.2026 17:59 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I see we've reached the "it's not a war it's a special military operation" stage. Meanwhile Russia is on like Day 1473 of its 3-day war...

05.03.2026 17:17 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

OMG! The Anthem Of Our Times!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

05.03.2026 16:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred…... I didn't want to make this post but unfortunately my hand has been forced. Sentona Games told me this week, after ignoring me for two months, that they will not be paying me the $24,000 deferred paym...

If you're in the game industry and use LinkedIn, please do me a favor and share my post about Sentona Games screwing me out of money I'm owed. Thank you

05.03.2026 00:41 👍 1989 🔁 892 💬 28 📌 15
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NOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities

McBATH: Did you just hear me? He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower. This is absolute lunacy and you know it.

04.03.2026 18:14 👍 17906 🔁 5979 💬 643 📌 294
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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 17066 🔁 5952 💬 511 📌 493
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Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

04.03.2026 12:00 👍 3628 🔁 506 💬 79 📌 81
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Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

04.03.2026 00:11 👍 1421 🔁 529 💬 74 📌 277
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

04.03.2026 01:05 👍 8115 🔁 2407 💬 260 📌 524
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Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS Reports suggest that Microsoft may be gearing up to launch Windows 12 this year, which will be a modular and AI-focused OS.

i would sooner staple my dick to a moving car than use this trash

tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...

04.03.2026 01:18 👍 1434 🔁 415 💬 98 📌 369

It sure is by the end, anyways

04.03.2026 01:38 👍 215 🔁 52 💬 3 📌 1

HERE's something I can get behind!

04.03.2026 02:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Incredible. They say they don’t need Congress’s approval but they sure need the money. This is a good chance to exert some authority and oversight.

04.03.2026 00:35 👍 221 🔁 54 💬 8 📌 4

Cool

03.03.2026 23:20 👍 507 🔁 124 💬 10 📌 2

i know eric adams, eric adams is a friend of mine, sir, you are no eric adams

03.03.2026 23:38 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion | The Globalization of Canadian Rage

I am Canadian, so I’m biased, but this was solid:

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

03.03.2026 22:15 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0